... must be vindicated. The soul of liberty is the love of law. If this be so, and you have no authority to enforce it, you have no law to protect the weak and defy the strong. My interview with Breckinridge was like an iceberg in my bosom. I was deceived in him, and discovered that Breckinridge had no hope of being elected — no hope but for Kentucky and the Southern States. I asked him if he w...